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It's all a numbers game. I'm sure he speech was fine. If I sat in a room for three days strait with a team of highly skilled speech writers, and went on stage with that speech to a self selected audience waiting to cheer me on if my pants didn't fall down, I think I could have given as good a speech.
Here's the thing, people cared about Obama's speech, they tuned in and watched it live. That puts people into an emotionally invested place with regard to Obama. I doubt Palin got the same Neilsen ratings.
Pundants on both sides could have wrote their statements with regard to the speech the night before. They will uniformly say it was a great speech, and then go into their personal political statements.
The speech wasn't going to be a failure unless her pants fell down half way through it, and even then pundits on both sides would be calling it a human moment. There is a vested interested in the media in having this be a horse race, and it is in the sense that Secretariate running against a cart horse is a horse race. But that's what the media needs to sell ads, so they are going to do what they can to build up, and tear down all these candidates, and spin poll numbers to reflect something other than what they obviously say.
Actually, go a head and talk up the speech, removing the low bar for the debates can only help the Democrats.
Congratulations to Ms. Palin, on her excellant speech, now about susceeding from the Union...
